Word: flunk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...classified as illiterates ? . . . Ever since I can remember it has been said that anyone with money and a little pull could go to S.U.I, and get a degree, but you had to have brains to get one from Iowa State College. When I was attending I.S.C., the saying went: "Flunk out at Iowa State and be on the honor roll at Iowa...
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...only hope that too many people don't flunk home economics at Eastern Illinois State...
...addition, Wriston's insistence upon strict academic standards means that a correspondingly higher percentage of students flunk out every year. Of the present senior class at Brown only 365 remain from an original freshman group of over 600. This sharp drop is a public warning that Brown expects its students to keep their averages up. It also suggests that Wriston may be overdoing his quest for the top. He may be asking for more than his students are intellectually capable of producing...
Most students have plenty of time for athletics, because the scholastic standards are made more flexible because of the state-support. The governor of Ohio spends a great deal of money to send these young people to college, and he does not intend to see them flunk out. A student goes on warning only if he gets a D average. If his marks go up to D plus, he comes off warning. If they go below, he may conceivably be asked to leave the school...